All Our Futures
2025
Glass bricks, found old brick, gold leaf, steel brackets, adhesive
Exhibited at To Build A Swing, LOY Contemporary Art Gallery, 2025
All Our Futures represents the concurrent hope and anxiety of the desire to construct a collective better future. The ghosts of our desires prop up the dreams of tomorrow, signifying both apparent fragility and resilience.
The sculptural installation of stacked glass bricks is in material limbo, holding up the future. Like Dreams of Postmodern Ruins, The work critiques the relentless destruction of urban landscapes alongside the valorisation of new architectural icons as gleaming symbols of progress. As foundational units of an(y) urban structure—the glass bricks, with their fragility and transparency—allude to the ephemeral qualities of what we build and what we (forget to) remember. The bricks complicate simplistic interpretations of architectural remnants or historical artefacts by also embodying an act of reclaiming forgotten futures-in-waiting. Taken together, Dreams of Postmodern Ruins and Our Futures invites viewers to ruminate on the socio-cultural costs of the city’s rapid transformation.
Our futures are built on the dreams or ghosts of our pasts. For me glass bricks bring a sense of limbo or cognitive dissonance, looking simultaneously fragile yet possessing strength.
The gold gilded old brick references construction and development, which is the major economic activity for many urban economies. The brick is ruined, yet with a shiny appearance of gold.
The 1.8m height gives it a human scale, yet with a sense of suspended motion and fragility.
2025
Glass bricks, found old brick, gold leaf, steel brackets, adhesive
Exhibited at To Build A Swing, LOY Contemporary Art Gallery, 2025
All Our Futures represents the concurrent hope and anxiety of the desire to construct a collective better future. The ghosts of our desires prop up the dreams of tomorrow, signifying both apparent fragility and resilience.
The sculptural installation of stacked glass bricks is in material limbo, holding up the future. Like Dreams of Postmodern Ruins, The work critiques the relentless destruction of urban landscapes alongside the valorisation of new architectural icons as gleaming symbols of progress. As foundational units of an(y) urban structure—the glass bricks, with their fragility and transparency—allude to the ephemeral qualities of what we build and what we (forget to) remember. The bricks complicate simplistic interpretations of architectural remnants or historical artefacts by also embodying an act of reclaiming forgotten futures-in-waiting. Taken together, Dreams of Postmodern Ruins and Our Futures invites viewers to ruminate on the socio-cultural costs of the city’s rapid transformation.
Our futures are built on the dreams or ghosts of our pasts. For me glass bricks bring a sense of limbo or cognitive dissonance, looking simultaneously fragile yet possessing strength.
The gold gilded old brick references construction and development, which is the major economic activity for many urban economies. The brick is ruined, yet with a shiny appearance of gold.
The 1.8m height gives it a human scale, yet with a sense of suspended motion and fragility.